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APWU Releases Q&As about 2025 Voluntary Early Retirement

February 1, 2025
The Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) recently announced for eligible postal workers by the Postal Service has generated many questions from the members of the APWU. The Postal Service published a list of questions and answers for our members.

House Resolution 70: Protecting the People’s Post Office

January 30, 2025
Please call APWU’s Legislative Hotline at 1-844-402-1001 to be connected to your member of Congress today, and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 70, which expressly opposes postal privatization. Defending the people’s public Postal Service from...

Blue Water

July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  In June, the Blue Water Veterans Act unanimously passed in the Senate. If signed by President Trump, the law will take effect at the start of 2020....

Stress Claims

July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) If you are feeling stressed, you are not alone. It is estimated that 8 in 10 Americans feel stress in their daily lives. Numerous studies indicate job...

Shop Steward’s Training Flash Drive

July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  The ‘Shop Steward’s Training Flash Drive’ is a comprehensive collection of educational material produced by the Research and Education Department...

What Does it Take?

July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  Most postal workers come to work, clock-in and do their fair day’s work. In return the Postal Service pays them for their efforts every other week....

From PSE to Full-Time Career: Retirement Buy Back

July 25, 2019
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  On May 2, the Federal Retirement Fairness Act was introduced by Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA-06) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK-04). If signed into law, H.R....

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